(Le Mars) — 43 people are feeling disappointed after the decision was made to cancel the Gehlen Catholic Mission Honduras tour. Carolyn Bickford, the coordinator for Mission Honduras program says they were hoping to still be able to go to the Central American nation, until it was unveiled that a
couple of cases of COVID-19 were detected in Honduras. Bickford says the group was scheduled to leave next week on Tuesday, March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day.
Bickford says there is some hope the Mission Honduras trip may be able to take place sometime during the summer.
The Mission Honduras Coordinator says this year’s group of 43 people, scheduled to go was the largest group ever assembled for the annual mission tour. Bickford says if the group is able to travel this summer, it may be a difficult challenge to coordinate the schedules.
Bickford says she knows there will be some participants, due to scheduling conflicts, that will not have the opportunity to travel to Honduras. This is the second time a planned trip to Honduras needed to be changed. A few years ago, the Honduras Mission trip was needing to be scrubbed for a service outreach program that was held in the state of Mississippi. The group was scheduled to help build homes in the Latin American nation. Bickford says those people living in Honduras that were promised a new home will still eventually have a home built.
(photos are from 2019 Mission Honduras Send-off ceremony)
